Monday, May 16, 2011

As you may know, teachers get terribly busy at the end of the school year. I don't have time to visit your blogs or to develop my thoughts into posts. I expect to be on hiatus till past mid June.

On occasion, though I find something to put up here that may lift your spirits or just inspire some awe. So, here: The last post featured a slo-mo video of tiny droplets colliding. This video, the one below, takes us in the opposite direction: vast spaces as can only be seen with a time-lapse camera. We get to see long periods time compressed into a few minutes.

The beauty on this end of the time spectrum is just as stunning. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

I've been fully engaged in my non-virtual life as a kindergarten teacher, ukulele player and family man in the past few weeks/months, with little time for online life. Once in a while I find something I want to share here. This wondrous video, I think, is worth the two minutes it takes to see.

In this video you can see droplets splashing and colliding at 5000 frames per second. It's astonishingly lovely.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Richard Feynman was a legendary thinker and teacher. The best education is personal. It's one-on-one. No pressure. Just lovely interesting discussion.

Feynman reminds me very much of my own father. Watching these videos (the first in a series of five is below) about the Pleasure of Finding Things Out brings back the same feelings I had as I listened to my dad when he was feeling good and sharing his wide and amazing view of the world.

If you want to listen in on the kind of conversation that stimulates thinking—deep, deep thinking—find 10 minutes and watch: